News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Reanna Danielle Campbell, 26, of Franklin County, Mo., pleaded guilty to her involvement in conspiring to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine. Campbell appeared in federal court today before United States District Judge John A. Ross, who accepted her plea and set her sentencing date for April 23, 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Superintendent Wayne Prokopetz announced today that the preserve will begin issuing this season’s free feral hog trapping permits on Monday, Feb. 3, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A jury today convicted a Browning man of sexually assaulting two women on the Blackfeet Reservation in 2018, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, held a hearing entitled, “Facial Recognition Technology (Part III): Ensuring Commercial Transparency & Accuracy."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for the unlicensed transportation of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JULIO OLIVERAS, also known as “Cuzzo Jay," 34, of Hartford and New Britain, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 186 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for narcotics trafficking and firearm possession offenses.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: The Memorial Visitor Center at Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial will be closed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita woman pleaded guilty today to federal firearms and drug charges, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Robert Hankard, age 43, of Baltimore, Maryland, on federal charges related to allegations that he provided a BB gun that he knew would be planted on a suspect, that he falsified an application for a search warrant and an arrest report in a second...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Thomas Close, 39, of Shelby, was sentenced today in federal court to 30 years in prison followed by lifetime supervised release, which included lifetime sex offender registration obligations. He was also ordered to pay $949 in restitution and a $300 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita woman pleaded guilty today to federal firearms and drug charges, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Feng “Franklin" Tao, 47, of Lawrence, Kan., was charged today in a superseding indictment with two counts of wire fraud and one count of program fraud. The indictment alleges Tao concealed from University of Kansas officials work he was doing for China while employed full time as an associate professor at KU’s Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis. Some of Tao’s research at KU was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - John Blecka was sentenced to 33 months in prison for possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Tatum King. The sentence was handed down today by the Honorable William Alsup, U.S. District Court Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, Attorney for the United States acting under authority conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, announced today that TELEMAQUE LAVIDAS was convicted after a one-week trial of illegally tipping his best friend and co-defendant Georgios Nikas with inside information he obtained from his father, a member of the board of directors of a pharmaceutical company.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA- A resident of West Newton PA, pleaded guilty in federal court to federal drug and firearms violations, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - This week, Emanuel D. Haudley, Sr., of Shonto, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael T. Liburdi to 235 months of imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release. Haudley had previously pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 126,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2019/2020 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of MARIO MARTELL SPENCER, 34, and AHMED OSMAN FARAH, 32, for the armed robbery of a Minneapolis convenience store. SPENCER and FARAH were convicted by a federal jury on June 17, 2019, and were sentenced to 156 months in prison and 120 months in prison, respectively. The sentences were handed down by Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Five Men Indicted for Operating an International Procurement Network to Export U.S.-Origin Goods to Pakistan’s Nuclear Program.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) seized more than 700 counterfeit sports-related items worth an estimated $300,000 during a joint anti-counterfeiting operation Monday in downtown New Orleans the day of the 2020 College Football Playoff National Championship Game at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
